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Gilford School Board: ““They seem intent on making this happen irrespective of people’s concerns,””

January 3, 2020 Skip

Now Normal people are starting to catch on that ANY Progressive agenda items, specifically the Gilford School Board and Superintendent Kirk Beitler trying to ram Policy JBAB on transgenders, declaring its love for “inclusion” is lying about the inclusive parts: “They seem intent on making this happen irrespective of people’s concerns,” said Angelo Farrugia, a … Read more

“…costs Gilford $95 per ton for trash removal and $235 per ton for “recyclables”

January 3, 2020 Op-Ed

I’m writing this follow up letter on the eve of the new Gilford Solid Waste Center’s opening. After my last letter, Town Administrator Scott Dunn found my email address and sent me a sheaf of material on the subject. Unfortunately, I feel that I understand the situation even less now. Mr. Dunn confirmed my statement … Read more

Gilford – Take our money for a Transfer Station THEN make recycling mandatory? Now a vote for Monarchical diktat

January 2, 2020 Skip

Sigh, this feels like its going to be a bit of a slog. While some may be saying “Skip, just do it – find the bags, find the time, wash everything, take more time to sort…just do it. Stop rocking the boat”. They don’t realize that is isn’t necessarily that I’m against doing all that, … Read more

Transgender – more pushback from Tennessee with no biological boys on girls teams

January 1, 2020 Skip

Just as a bill is being put into the NH House hopper that would prevent biological boys compete on biological girls teams, so is this bill from Tennessee. And has a whale of a penalty if some government official allows it to happen (reformatted, emphasis mine): Proposed bill would prevent transgender females from competing in … Read more

Gilford – Take our money for a Transfer Station THEN make recycling mandatory? Part 2

January 1, 2020 Skip

I did my initial rant here. Did you know that our new Recycling Center is now going to have a firing range (supposed to be for law enforcement but why stop there – if the taxpayers are paying for the facility, why not the rest of us?), and a boat storage area (probably for the … Read more

Nashua Rep Deb Stevens Needs to Up Her Meds

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020 Kimberly Morin

Nashua State Representative Deb Stevens is upping her psychotic hate game against Trump supporters with a recent post on her public representative page: Stevens seems to forget that it’s been her own kind, on the left, who have been hateful, bigoted and actually violent against anyone who supports the president or who simply disagrees with … Read more

“Lawmakers Fatal Conceit on Recycling Should Be Trashed”

January 1, 2020December 31, 2019 Skip

My hamlet has just decided to force mandatory recycling on everyone in town (and they didn’t have to. They could have just said that IF you are going to recycle, here’s where what stuff goes where.

Tales from the Selectboard – “sure, ve haff der Power to make you verk for free fer der Recyling Center”

December 31, 2019 Skip

So last night was the Selectboard’s Public Meeting on the Recycling Center / Transfer Station: Rules, Regulations, and Fines. And what fine Fines they are! Here’s the paperwork / package that was prepped for the meeting. Again, to set the stage, twice the Selectboard put in warrants for the money to build out this place: … Read more

Finally, some sanity – HB 1251 (prohibiting biological boys from biological girls teams)

December 30, 2019December 29, 2019 Skip

2+2 = 4 —

“This bill prohibits public schools from permitting a male student to participate in a student sport designated for females.”

What to do: Gilford School Board Stonewalls a Right-to-Know Demand – The Result (with a whimper)

December 29, 2019December 28, 2019 Skip

2+2 = 5 I never did get a response back from Superindent Beitler…But I DID get a response at the next School Board Policy Committee meeting! Government coercing speech and thought over gender dysphoria – the Gilford School Board example. It all started with this: and just like that, it ended with this: C. Names/Pronouns … Read more

Special Election Takes Shape in Hooksett

December 28, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The Honorable Dick Marple, from Hooksett, passed away suddenly on December 13. Rep. Marple was a dedicated public servant for decades who spent his time in Concord fighting for liberty and preservation of the Constitution. Thank you to the Marple family and Dick himself who spent so much time fighting for you and I. Hooksett … Read more

What to do: Gilford School Board Stonewalls a Right-to-Know Demand

December 28, 2019December 28, 2019 Skip

2+2 = 5:

“…it is about the SAU, as a subdivision of the State of NH, assuming a Power to grant Rights to someone as well the Power to obviate the First Amendment Rights of anyone who happens to be on SAU property”

Give, Don’t Govern

December 29, 2019December 28, 2019 Op-Ed

By John Stossel: Christmas Day 2019 –

This week, children may learn about that greedy man, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is selfish until ghosts scare him into thinking about others’ well-being, not just his own.

What to do: Gilford School Board Stonewalls a Right-to-Know Demand – Part 2

December 28, 2019December 28, 2019 Skip

I know, I know, – late again to finish this saga of how the Gilford School Board finally figured out they were blowing smoke with their notion that they had the Power to grant a new Right upon a person suffering from gender dysphoria that then placed legal obligations upon others: The first Right to … Read more

10 Political Ads this Decade – Which is the Best/Worst?

December 27, 2019

Yep, end of the decade coming up – so I’ll post a few “best of” posts over the next couple days. Let’s start with Political Ads. 2010: Dale Peterson, Alabama Ag Commissioner 2011: Have you slept with Rick Perry? Apparently someone wants to know. 2012: Paul Ryan kills Grandma 2013: Minneapolis Mayor “Wake the F— … Read more

NH Democrat Congressman’s Restaurant is the Unidentified Source of a Norovirus Outbreak

December 27, 2019December 27, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Congressman Chris Pappas owns the Puritan Backroom Restaurant in Manchester, New Hampshire. In late November, 18 people contracted intestinal issues later identified as Norovirus. Not one local news outlet identified Congressman Pappas’ restaurant as the source in their reporting.

New Hampshire’s Bi-Partisan Usurpation of Local Control

April 13, 2025December 26, 2019 Jane Aitken

Michael Kitch’s November 22, 2019 article in the NH Business Review; “Taking on NH’s housing ‘crisis’ – Task force’s recommendations ‘a long time coming’” praises the Governor’s new plan to manage housing in NH. The plan is not an enhancement of local control, but a gross usurpation of it. And it could have dire consequences for … Read more

On transgenderism, the emperor has no clothes

December 26, 2019December 24, 2019 Skip

(Note: emphasis mine. Steve posted about Shaun Cooke here. -Skip] ***** A friend of mine recently commented on a Union Leader piece on a “woman” (above)who was being sought after not returning to transitional housing. It was accompanied by a photo of a bald man in a T-shirt with a scruffy beard. She was laughing. “Look … Read more

Incredible that the Left treats animals better than some kids

December 22, 2019 Skip

We see this “mis-attention” all the time. For instance, we’ve all heard the Left wail about kids crossing the border were housed in cages – a practice blamed on Trump but started by Obama. More locally, NH State Rep Katherine Rogers is all in for not allowing cats to be declawed (HB1387) and acting as … Read more

WHAT IS THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY & WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

December 20, 2019 Norm Silber

Law schools and the legal profession are currently strongly dominated by a form of orthodox liberal ideology which advocates a centralized and uniform society. While some members of the academic community have dissented from these views, by and large they are taught simultaneously with (and indeed as if they were) the law. The Federalist Society … Read more